Elon Musk’s estranged daughter Vivian Wilson says her father was in the Caribbean around the time emails included in the latest Epstein files release appear to show he was trying to set up a visit to the convicted sex offender’s private island.

As has been widely reported, at least two email exchanges apparently between Musk and Epstein were among the over three million pages of documents released by the U.S. Department of Justice on Friday related to its criminal investigation of Epstein and his 2019 death. Both exchanges appear to show Musk arranging visits to Little Saint James, Epstein’s private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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In one November 2012 email, apparently arranging transportation to Little Saint James, Musk asks Epstein — who was convicted on state charges including solicitation of prostitution with a minor under the age of 18 in 2008 — “What day/night will be the wildest on your island?”

Another exchange, dated December 2013, shows Musk writing to Epstein that he “Will be in the BVI/St Bart’s area over the holidays. Is there a good time to visit?” In a later email, Musk writes: “Actually, I could fly back early on the 3rd. We will be in St Bart’s. When should we head to your island on the 2nd?”

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As Out reports, Wilson appeared to weigh in on the 2013 emails in a series of Threads posts over the weekend.

“I’m just going to speak directly instead of being vague and cryptic,” Wilson wrote in a January 31 post. “I can confirm we were in St Barth’s at the time specified in the emails, and therefore I believe they are authentic.”

“This has basically already been confirmed through his attempts to paint them as out of context (denial is a river in Egypt),” Wilson wrote in a separate post. “I knew nothing about the e-mails previously, so I’m learning about everything at the same time as y’all. If there’s any other information I learn that I can corroborate, I will do so.”

In a third post, Wilson speculated that Musk may have been referring to Necker Island, an island in the British Virgin Islands, when he wrote “BVI,” but added that she could not confirm that. “It’s a little bit difficult to ask someone ‘hey what year did we go to Necker Island, it might be in regards to the Epstein Files lol xoxo’. We didn’t go there as often as St Barth’s,” she wrote. “Idk if this is relevant, I believe the e-mails are confirmed regardless through the mention of St. Barth’s over the holidays but I figured since it’s context I specifically have that I should share it.”

Wilson, who came out as trans in 2020, has reportedly been estranged from Musk since at least 2022, when she legally changed her name to distance herself from him. The 21-year-old model would have been around 9 years old in 2013.

As Forbes notes, Musk has never been accused of wrongdoing in relation to Epstein’s crimes, and emails released Friday indicate that the 2013 visit to Little Saint James never happened — with Musk writing in one email that he was “disappointed.” According to the outlet, Musk has claimed he had “very little correspondence” with Epstein, “declined repeated invitations” to the island, and declined to fly on Epstein’s private jet — nicknamed the “Lolita Express,” named for a famous novel where a professor obsesses over and sexually abuses an underage girl.

“Nobody has fought harder for full release of the Epstein files and prosecutions of those who abused children more than I did,” Musk wrote in a February 1 X post. “I knew that I would be smeared relentlessly, despite never having attended his parties or been on his ‘Lolita Express’ plane or set foot on his creepy island or done anything wrong at all.”

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